Performances in N.Y.C. Gustav Holst composed “The Planets” with crucial help from others. Firsthand accounts and the score reflect how collaborative its creation was. The New York Philharmonic, ...
My sister plays upright bass (double-bass, contra bass, what have you) in the Big Island's philharmonic orchestra. This past weekend they put on Holst's Planets with an 83-piece orchestra. This is a ...
One movement in Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is called “Fossils.” A xylophone sounds like dancing bones, but it’s still a stretch to associate the short work with the Brontosaurus ...
Left-field duo Stevens & Pound threaded funky folk stylings with poetry by Robert Macfarlane and virtuoso playing by Britten Sinfonia to create The Silent Planet, a rethinking of Holst’s Planets Suite ...
One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...
Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest ...
Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have much more to offer.
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